The History of the United States, in Four Volumes - Edition de Luxe

1881 pp. paginated continuously. 9 1/2 x 6 3/4. Original brown cloth, brown leather spine labels, gilt titles & rules, gilt top page ridge. Photogravure frontispieces of James Wilford Garner, Henry Cabot Lodge, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. Black & white photographs and full-page illustrations throughout text, including several maps (some color) and reproductions of historical documents. Acquired from the private collection of Dr. Daniel Sperber, a prominent physicist and nuclear theorist. Garner's History of the United States was his second work, following Reconstruction in Mississippi, a critical dissertation praised by W.E.B. Du Bois. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Garner was a professor of political science at the University of Illinois. His co-author, H.C. Lodge, was a Massachusetts historian considered to be one of the first Senate majority leaders, and was most well-known for his feud with President Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles. John Bach McMaster was an American historian and Princeton University professor in civil engineering, and was most well-known for his History of the People of the United States from the Revolution to the Civil War.